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COVID Diaries - Captains Log Post for the 50th day of lock down.
Today I looked at the vertical and diagonal marks I had been scratching on the "Dr Who Calendar" that hangs in the study of my isolation pod and came to the scary realization that the four vertical marks with one diagonal mark through them came to a total of 10 items marked that way - or that 50 days of isolation had been record. Only 50 days that felt like 50 years as I remembered back to the days when people looked forward to being in a crowd or riding on train.
Now everything has become a litany of preparation to protect and defend against a virus, a something it is not really possible to defend against. A simple trip on the train requires the packing of gloves, a sanitizer and possibly a mask if you are going a long way - just the preparation to do stuff is exhausting. As a person who has always loved the spontaneous, the idea that "anything can happen Thursday" should be a thing, the COVID has been a real "Buzz Killer". Still there is always a positive and as we look forward to the arrival of our fifth grand child, there is the reminder that life renews and that time not only moves on but can also get better. I like my Dr Who as he/she are a Time Traveler and my scratches on his/her calendar as they remind of this fact.
Today I looked at the vertical and diagonal marks I had been scratching on the "Dr Who Calendar" that hangs in the study of my isolation pod and came to the scary realization that the four vertical marks with one diagonal mark through them came to a total of 10 items marked that way - or that 50 days of isolation had been record. Only 50 days that felt like 50 years as I remembered back to the days when people looked forward to being in a crowd or riding on train.
Now everything has become a litany of preparation to protect and defend against a virus, a something it is not really possible to defend against. A simple trip on the train requires the packing of gloves, a sanitizer and possibly a mask if you are going a long way - just the preparation to do stuff is exhausting. As a person who has always loved the spontaneous, the idea that "anything can happen Thursday" should be a thing, the COVID has been a real "Buzz Killer". Still there is always a positive and as we look forward to the arrival of our fifth grand child, there is the reminder that life renews and that time not only moves on but can also get better. I like my Dr Who as he/she are a Time Traveler and my scratches on his/her calendar as they remind of this fact.